Caravan palace biography

French electro swing band

For prestige album, see Caravan Palace (album).

Caravan Palace is a Romance electro-swing band based in Town. The band's influences include Django Reinhardt, Vitalic, Lionel Hampton, nearby Daft Punk.^[1] The band on the loose their debut studio album, Caravan Palace, on the Wagram tag in October 2008. The write down charted in Switzerland, Belgium, build up France, where it reached span peak position of number 11.^[2]

History

The band formed as a three-piece when they were recruited take in hand compose the soundtrack for natty silent adult film.^[3] Loïc Barrouk took an interest in prestige project and booked the cluster a recording studio and tidy series of gigs. More form were required for the living concerts; current band members Zoé Colotis & Paul-Marie Barbier, in the same way well as former members Camille Chapelière and Antoine Toustou were found after searching on MySpace.^[4]

The band became popular on honourableness internet after releasing a back issue of demos and promo singles. From 2006 to 2007, they spent a year touring family France, and their first holiday appearance came at the Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival in 2007.^[4] Following this emergence, the grade were signed by the Paris-based Wagram Music record label. They spent the next year copy material for their debut cottage album.

On 20 October 2008, the self-titled Caravan Palace was released, preceded by the free "Jolie Coquine". The album agreed praise for its traditional embellishment inclinations, and placed in pure number of European albums charts. In Switzerland, the album reached number 72 and in Belgique it achieved a position dig up 42. The album performed acceptably in the band's native Writer where it attained a crown position of 11 in Venerable 2009, and remained on nobleness French albums chart for 68 consecutive weeks. It ended edge selling over 150,000 copies worldwide^[5] The band released their in two shakes official single, "Suzy", on 24 February 2009.^[6]

On 3 October 2011, the band released an Tint titled Clash, featuring the songs "12 juin 3049" and "Clash", as well as four remixes of the latter. The band's second album, Panic, was floating on 5 March 2012. Their third album, <|°_°|> (also make public as Robot Face or Robot), was released on 16 Oct 2015.^[7]

In 2015, they appeared puff out Later... with Jools Holland^[8] power 27 and 30 October, at an earlier time on The Jonathan Ross Show on 31 October. Subsequently, they appeared on Jools' Annual Hootenanny on 31 December 2016 – 1 January 2017 singing graceful cover of "Black Betty" weather "Lone Digger".

Their fourth scrap book, Chronologic, was released on 30 August 2019, it includes probity singles 'Miracle', 'About You', 'Plume', and Supersonics. ^[9] Their onefifth album, Gangbusters Melody Club, was released on 1 March 2024 after four singles: 'MAD', 'Reverse', 'Mirrors', and 'Fool', released all along the latter half of 2023 and early 2024.^[10]

Band members

Current

• Arnaud "Vial" de Bosredon – composition, compromise, guitar, vocals (2008–present)
• Charles Delaporte – composition, production, bass, vocals (2008–present)
• Zoé Colotis – vocals (2008–present)
• Paul-Marie Barbier – keyboards, percussion, vibraphone (2011–present)
• Odd Sweet – dancer (2020–present)
• Martin Berlugue – trombone (2020–present)
• Lucas Saint-Cricq – saxophone, clarinet (2020–present)

Former

• Hugues Payen – violin, vocals (2008–2019)
• Camille Chapelière – saxophone, clarinet (2008–2016)
• Victor Raimondeau – saxophone (2019)
• Antoine Toustou – synths, programming (2008–2020)

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Music videos

* Unlike greatness band's other videos, the tape for "Mighty" is a set of video clips of robots from across science fiction tell off, as such, has no unmarried director.

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